In Review:

Film director Zack Snyder (Watchmen,

300), collaborated with Grammy®-
nominated composer and music director
Marius de Vries (Moulin Rouge!) and
composer Tyler Bates (Watchmen, 300,
Californication) to select the collection of
songs featured on the soundtrack.

“Working with Marius and re-teaming with

Tyler on SUCKER PUNCH’S soundtrack was
an extraordinary experience,” Snyder
stated. “SUCKER PUNCH is a film created
with multiple levels of reality, so this same
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SUCKER PUNCH:
selection of songs we chose and the
THE ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE various ways in which they were each re-
SOUNDTRACK envisioned had to add depth,
WaterTower Music dimension and meaning to the sequences
they exist within. Marius and Tyler did an
“SUCKER PUNCH is an epic action fantasy amazing job creating an intricate musical
that takes us into the vivid imagination of landscape to accompany the surreal
a young girl whose dream world provides imagery of the film.”
the ultimate escape from her darker
reality.” — Big Hassle The soundtrack contains a number of
impressive tracks such as “Army Of Me
The fiercely imaginative and wildly (Sucker Punch Remix)” (Björk featuring
inventive drive of the soundtrack offers a Skunk Anansie), “White Rabbit” (Emiliana
nearly overwhelming sensual experience. Torrini), and “I Want It All”/“We Will Rock
Familiar songs writhe and mutate, curling You” Mash-Up (Queen with Armageddon
up to recede into themselves only to Aka Geddy), but the standout track is
unfold and emerge as evolved, darker delivered by the film’s leading lady, Emily
versions that are ready for battle. Browning. Emily’s breathy, sensual
approach to the unnervingly undulating
The individual tracks are firmly sutured “Sweet Dreams” is sinisterly brilliant.
into a tar-like tapestry of sound where Browning is a sorceress wielding
they shift and meld until the once unfathomable power beneath the
disparate songs are remarkably similar. misleading guise of a chilling tranquility.
Imagine a soundscape where Eurythmics,
Björk, The Pixies, Queen and Jefferson S UCKER P UNCH : T HE O RIGINAL M OTION
Airplane tumble through each other like P ICTURE S OUNDTRACK is a stunningly
the amorphous substance found in a lava foreboding work, that strikes with a raw,
lamp. unrelenting, gut-pummeling force.
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